Medical facilities: In a bid to offer medical facilities to its employees and former employees, the Indian Railways has announced a card system called Unique Medical Identification (UMID). These cards are specifically meant for its employees, pensioners, and their dependents. UMID is a system that assigns a distinctive number to each medical beneficiary to create … Read more
(This story originally appeared in on Mar 12, 2021) Anon descript suburb of Chennai and an uncared part of the erstwhile Purasawalkam assembly constituency, Kolathur became a star constituency overnight with the arrival of M K Stalin as the DMK candidate two assembly elections ago. The constituency, comprising largely crowded residential neighbourhoods sandwiched between Ayanavaram … Read more
Shahid Akhter, editor, ETHealthworld, spoke to Ron Emerson, Global Healthcare Lead, Zoom, to know more about the impact and growth of telehealth during the pandemic and the promise it holds for the future. How has technology impacted healthcare industry during the pandemic?The pandemic has completely transformed the healthcare industry to cater to patients, and telehealth … Read more